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March 11, 2013

Lenore Weiss reads her award-winning poetry at 不良研究所 March 21

Award-winning poet Lenore Weiss will read her poetry at the University of Louisiana at Monroe at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 21, in Hemphill Hall 134.

The event is free and open to the public.

不良研究所 Professor of English Jack Heflin said, 鈥淭he English Department is happy to host a reading by the Bay Area poet Lenore Weiss whose latest book, 鈥楥utting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island,鈥� celebrates her Jewish heritage in poems that honor for example the life of the martyr Hannah Senesh or that praise the work of the Israeli musician Yair Dalal.

The poems in the book also reflect upon the bizarre presence of technology in our worlds and upon our continued dependence upon the natural and the pastoral. We are lucky to have her on campus. Lenore Weiss joins a long list of poets and writers who have read at 不良研究所.鈥�

In her full collection 鈥淐utting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island,鈥� published in 2012 by West End Press, Weiss embodies the themes of loss, transformation and re-invention that are integral to life and to her work.

Poems also celebrate the author鈥檚 Jewish Hungarian upbringing. Survival, negotiation, and migration play a vital role in these poems about family and love.

Another thread in her work focuses on technology and its role in relationships, and Weiss has had practical applications of both during her professional career as a content developer, most recently for Apple Computer.

These mysteries of family, politics, and technology build a powerful debut that details one woman鈥檚 migrations through life鈥檚 spheres and how the connections expand and weave themselves together into one functioning network.

Her other collections include 鈥淭ap Dancing on the Silverado Trail鈥� (2011) from Finishing Line Press and 鈥淪h鈥檓a Yis鈥檙ael鈥� (2007) from Pudding House Publications. She is a contributing editor to . 

Weiss鈥檚 work has been widely published online and in journals including 鈥淒igital Americana,鈥� 鈥淭echnoculture,鈥� 鈥淐onclave,鈥� 鈥渞iverbabble,鈥� 鈥淭he Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion,鈥� 鈥淓xquisite Corpse,鈥� 鈥淣imrod International Journal,鈥� 鈥淐opper Nickel,鈥� and 鈥淏ridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal鈥� as well as anthologized in 鈥淣ot a Muse: Inner Lives of Women鈥� and 鈥淏igger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems.鈥� 

Weiss now lives in Sterlington and is working on several new projects.

For more information, visit her blog at .

For more information about this event, please contact Heflin at helfin@ulm.edu of 318-342-1521.

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